Music and Culture of WW1 - Modernist Moments - St Petersburg

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Tom Service uncovers a world of startling sounds and heightened feeling in Alexander Scriabin’s final composition, the Five Preludes Op.74. Written in 1914 in St Petersburg, months before Scriabin died, here is music riddled with the ambiguities of the time.

Published on Thursday, 9th January 2014.

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